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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1923

1,435 stories in Riverina's papers · page 44 of 72

Local and General Municipal Appeal Court

The Daily Express · Tuesday 31 July 1923 · page 2

To-day the Appeal Court against the Municipal valuations will be conducted in the Wagga Court House There are abcut 200 appeals [?]sted…

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Coogee Mystery. Accused Again Before Court. New Charge Preferred. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1923 · page 2

When Alfred Heaydon, Frank Taylor, Edward Riley and Ellen Kreigher again appeared before the Central Court to-day, in connection with the…

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WIRES & Cables This Afternoon Exclusively News Not Available Here by Any Other Paper Till To-morrow. Confidence Men. Police Campaign. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 31 July 1923 · page 1

There has been no cessation in the campaign against the confidence men in N.S.W. Special attention has been paid to tricksters on trains and three…

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Municipal Appeal Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 August 1923 · page 2

Apart altogether from the question of whether the vuluatioue were excessive or not, the proceedings nt the Appeal Court yesterday afforded an…

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A.W.U. Stealing Charge. Counsel's Allegations. Crook Ballots and Fake Tickets. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 August 1923 · page 2

The hearing of the case against Thomas Januarius Smith, M.L.C. of having stolen 25 ticket butts and 25 tickets of membership of the…

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Becoming Good London Police Report London, July 30

The Daily Express · Wednesday 1 August 1923 · page 1

The report of the Commissioner of Police shows that London’s behaviour is improving. During 1922 only 20,000 police were…

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Preference to Unionists. Employees' Appeal Before' Court. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 August 1923 · page 4

Preference to unionists was grants by the Industrial Court with regard to shop assistants in the grocery, confectionery and drapery trades. The…

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A Mean Theft

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 August 1923 · page 2

As yesterday was Wattle Day, a Wagga lady decorated the base of the monument in Baylis-street with wattle, placing one bunch of the blossom on one…

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Telegrams Sydney, Thursday Coogee Murder

Ariah Park News · Thursday 2 August 1923 · page 4

Police were not long at work this morning in a shed in Catherine Street when more bones, believed to be carpal bones of…

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Town Property Values Which Is the Best End Of. Baylis Street ? Arguments in the Municipal Appeal Court Magistrate Upholds Many Appellants and Makes Important Reductions

The Daily Express · Thursday 2 August 1923 · page 1

At yesterdays sittings of the Municipal Appeal Court at the Wagga Court House further redu[?]ns were made in the valuations, and incident…

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Out of Court Racecourse and Convent

The Daily Express · Thursday 2 August 1923 · page 2

A point or law raised by the solicitor to the Wagga Municipal Council at yesterday’s sitting of the municipal Court will be of considerable…

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Defied the Police. and Goes to Gaol Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 3 August 1923 · page 2

At the Central Summons Court today, Donald Grant was charged with [?]street by 'speaking in the open…

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Police Force Debauched. (Published by Arrangement). Magistrate on Prohibition Corruption of Youth

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 3 August 1923 · page 2

Magistrate Joseph E. Corrigan, is an open, letter to the newspapers definitely and emphatically says out in concise form his objections to the law…

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Coogee Murder. Question of an Inquest. Police Pursuing Inquiries. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 August 1923 · page 2

The defectives brought to the police headquarters this afternoon three bags containing ten bones, hair, earth and lime deposits. These will be handed…

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The Coogee Murder Buried Under Garage. Bones Found. Police Think They Are Mrs. Heaydon's

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 3 August 1923 · page 3

A most sensational development in the Coogee murder mystery occurred on Wednesday afternoon, when Detectives Lynch, Garlick…

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Defrauding the Railway. Three Men Charged. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 August 1923 · page 1

Three men, James Fitzgerald, George Lissner, and Eugene Trim, were remanded at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having…

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Police as Bootleggers. (Published by Arrangement) [?]

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 3 August 1923 · page 7

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Alleged Contempt of Court. Country Newspapers Cited Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 August 1923 · page 4

The case of Harriet Kate Mills v. the Armidale "Express" Glen Innes "Guardian," and Walcha "Witness" newspapers, calling upon the latter…

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The Valuations Municipal Appeal Court Business Concluded Small Reductions Again Predominate More Than 200 Applications Out of 296 Are Successful

The Daily Express · Friday 3 August 1923 · page 1

[?] of friendly [?] appellants [?] and valu [?] helmore and…

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Indecent Assault

The Daily Express · Saturday 4 August 1923 · page 2

At the Wagga Court House yesterday, Mr. E. Sullivan, J.P., committed Ernest Edward Diebert (40) for trial at the Wagga Quarter Sessions,…

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